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Posted on January 17, 2020January 17, 2020

The Weekly Rapport: Range, Meaning, and Polaroid Cameras

Hi All, Welcome to the Weekly Rapport. A weekly guide of things I’m reading, doing, and experimenting with. Enjoy. Quote of the Week The way you do anything is the way you do everything. - Tom Waits What I'm Reading Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World - David Epstein You can pretty much figure …

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Posted on January 13, 2020

Year in Review: My 2019 Reading List

I always wanted to keep a full log and review of every book I've ever read. It may be too late in my life to go back and chronicle all the books I read since I was 10 years old, but I at least have a good established base of this blog and my Instagram …

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Posted on September 14, 2018September 27, 2018

The Weekly Rapport #7

Hey guys, Here's your weekly guide of what I'm reading, watching, paying attention to or just overall enjoying: Much-Need Golf Tutorials Alex Elliott Golf (website) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gwRRnyGNz8 Instagram YouTube Golf is a game where you're continually learning and you'll never ever be a true master at it. No matter how good you think you are, golf always …

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I have read all seven of the action-packed James Reece thrillers byJack Carr, all of which have been phenomenal. But this book takes a step into the past, with James’ father, Tom Reese. Founded by Rev. Jerry Falwell, Liberty is one of America’s largest evangelical universities—a place where students pray before class, follow a famously strict code of conduct, and prepare to become “Champions for Christ.” Roose enrolls as a transfer student, attends church, joins choir, goes on a spring break evangelism trip, and immerses himself in a world that couldn’t have been more different from his own. I got this book free for subscribing to Word on Fire, the Catholic media organization founded by Bishop Robert Barron. (Yes, free books are a perk of religious media subscriptions ;) I picked up this book at a Little Free Library near my house. It was short, and it was free, which were basically my only criteria. I decided to flip through it quickly and sure enough, I finished it in a day. The Seven Storey Mountain is Thomas Merton’s account of his conversion to Catholicism. Born in France in 1915 to a pair of artist parents who weren’t especially religious, he spent his teenage years in Douglaston, NY, and eventually landed at Columbia University. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry book review 📚 I get a shit ton of book recommendations. Most I politely file away. You may have noticed my recent turn toward Christianity. Don’t worry, I’m not turning into some Bible-thumbing Jesus freak. But I am more curious than ever, so consider this me following that curiosity wherever it leads. After reading Mere Christianity, I went down the Christian apologetics rabbit hole, which eventually led me to the legendary Timothy Keller.
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